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• Furnace — For other uses, see Furnace (disambiguation). Industrial Furnace from 1907 A furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. In American English and Canadian English, the term furnace on its own is generally used… …   Wikipedia

• Furnace room — A furnace room is a room for locating the furnace and auxiliary equipment. Such a room minimizes the visual impact of the furnace, pipes and other gear. A modern compact furnace can readily fit into a small closet. However care must be exercised… …   Wikipedia

• Electric arc furnace — An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc. Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400 …   Wikipedia

• high efficiency gas furnace — Furnace which uses recycling of combustion gases or pulse combustion to obtain operating efficiencies from 85 to 95 percent …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Blast furnace — A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce metals, generally iron. In a blast furnace, fuel and ore are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while air (sometimes with oxygen enrichment) is… …   Wikipedia

• Thermal efficiency — In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency (eta {th} ,) is a dimensionless performance measure of a thermal device such as an internal combustion engine, a boiler, or a furnace, for example. The input, Q {in} ,, to the device is heat, or the heat… …   Wikipedia

• Annual fuel utilization efficiency — The annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE; pronounced A Few ) is a thermal efficiency measure of combustion equipment like furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. The AFUE differs from the true thermal efficiency in that it is not a steady state …   Wikipedia

• Schoolcraft Furnace Site — U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

• Reverberatory furnace — A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases. The term reverberation is used here in a generic sense of rebounding… …   Wikipedia

• Cyclone furnace — A cyclone furnace is a type of coal combustor commonly used in large industrial boilers. Background Developed in the early 1942 by Babcock Wilcox to take advantage of coal grades not suitable for pulverized coal combustion, cyclone furnaces feed… …   Wikipedia

• Graphite furnace atomic absorption — spectrometry (GFAAS) (also known as Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (ETAAS)) is a type of spectrometry that uses a graphite coated furnace to vaporize the sample. Briefly, the technique is based on the fact that free atoms will… …   Wikipedia